Letters to the Editor
GeeJay
Published Letters: 117 Editor's Choice: 19
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Go G.
[Read the article: Angry, hateful liberal bloggers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. G, keep in mind that one is defined by one’s enemies. I think that puts you in good stead.
Secondly, though you may not want to put it in print, I will. These right wing neocons have two outstanding traits that they demonstrate with every utterance. They are stupid, and they are cowards. Their false bravado hides insecurities that are most likely related to childhood abandonment at some level. They don’t know how to establish self worth, so they expand their ego by vapid utterances of hate for others. A coward hates, the strong learn how to love. The stupid look for scapegoats, the smart look for solutions.
By the by, people who bring up sexuality in all the wrong places are crying out for help. Theirs is an unconscious plea to try to untangle their sexual urges, urges they are afraid to admit to themselves. It is part of the their cowardly structure.
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Let's not forget the Hague Court immunity
[Read the article: Red, white and mercenary in Iraq]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The U.S. declaring a portion of its occupying troops immune from prosecution by Iraqi law, meanwhile occupying the country only at the request of the Iraqis, is pure lunacy. It’s easy to see how this strategy can solve some short term problems, but the long term problems created by this policy, which will be significant, will take decades to resolve.
This type of thinking is endemic within the Bush/Cheney/Neocon philosophy. Their shortsightedness reveals underdeveloped thinking capabilities. Power, in and of itself, and by definition, being that it is out of equilibrium, is short lived. Thus Power must be tempered by others (besides Mr. B.) Whatever happened to Senator Wellstone? Too bad the only member of Congress who would have actively opposed the Bush/Cheney descent to neofascism was forced to leave the political mat.
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Other notable comments
[Read the article: What you missed while watching "Oprah"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]With the current “debates” being so Republican in nature, I thought I would spice things up with a few of the more memorable comments from past and present Republicans (and other notable voices).
Ishtak Weinstein at the 1933 Germany’s National Socialist Party Convention:
“Hitler or me, one of us has to go!”
Richard Nixon at the 1973 National Professional Chef’s Conference:
“I am not a cook!”
Arnold Schwartzenegger at the 2006 NAACP’s Solution to Racism Conference:
“I’ll be black!”
Vice President Chaney to the 2007 Population Control Conference on how to solve over population:
“Go f*** yourself!”
Noah to the 2000BCE Garden of Eden District’s Insurer’s Conference:
“Flood insurance, shmud insurance!”
Robert Downey Jr. to the 2002 Betty Ford Clinic Parole Board:
“Give me Liberty or give me Meth!”
Roger “Big Gun” Clark at the 2003 Responsible Deer Hunters of America Association Get-Together:
“Don’t fire until you see the brights in their eyes!”
Satan - Prince of Darkness, at the 2007 National Refrigeration Society’s Convention (to the chagrin of millions):
“Thanks to you, I now have a snowball in hell!”
President Bush to the 2006 Hollywood Actor’s Union brunch:
“Missed takes? Missed takes? I can’t recall ever making one!”
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Hughe-ing the torture line
[Read the article: An open letter to Karen Hughes]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Perhaps if Karen Hughes cannot understand the logic of Mr. B.’s letter, she can understand the meaning of the following scenario.
Imagine that a small group of people are able to get the official U.S. documentation that outlines what are acceptable means of interrogation. Imagine that this group is able to capture two U.S. Marines, a female and a male, during an armed conflict in Iraq. Then the show begins.
During a live Internet feed, the captors follow the official U.S. interrogation procedures while interviewing the two Marines. The interrogators stress repeatedly that what they are doing should not in any way be considered cruel or barbaric, and surely not torture, for they are following the strict line-by-line policies of a country that does not torture.
This “film” will of course become one of the most watched films in the history of our planet. Of course it will be known as the “Torture” film.
Why, Mrs. Hughes, would this film be so troublesome to you? It is only a reflection of U.S. policy that you wholeheartedly support.
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Non-Christian Behavior
[Read the article: Giuliani's Christian-right foes to meet again]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Mr. Dobson’s and Mr. Perkins’ ambition is to accumulate power. The method for doing this is to use reactionary biblical theories to demonize others, thus portraying themselves as “angels” by contrast. There is a long history of their ilk in this country, the original fear mongers.
If Dobson and Perkins were looking for a Christian candidate to support, they would embrace the most orthodox and practiced Christian in the field, Ms. Clinton. Ms. Clinton has followed traditional Christian practices by deed for 50 years. The problem with her is she is a Democrat and the Democratic Party is not about to start licking Dobson’s and Perkins’ sandals.
These conservatives are involved in a political grandstanding power play. They will be in rapture this weekend for they have forced the Republican candidates to pay tribute. They have no intention of abandoning the Republican Party. The Republican Party is what gives credibility to them and to their simpleton pseudo-Christian organizations, no matter how small that credibility is.